Field Notes Blog

December's festivals of light are a time for hearty greetings. It makes sense to run holiday promotions on your website and social media with graphics that are appealing and professional.My Holiday Promo Pack includes everything you need to make your website and social media a warm welcoming place for your visitors and induce them to share your content and current promotions.​​The Holiday Promo Pack includes:

Based on your website's layout and your choices I'll add elements to bring the holiday theme to your site while keeping it tasteful and appropriate. Custom work is available too if you want something smaller or want to really customize your site (like mine!). Note that the price does not include stock imagery, which ranges from $10 to $40 depending on what you pick out. Don’t miss the opportunity that holidays provide to draw attention to your site. Get something unique that people will remember and, more importantly, share with their online friends! Contact me to make your site a warm, inviting place for visitors this season.

Your website exists for a reason - to boost the bottom line of your business or nonprofit. Whether it's booking a table, making a purchase, scheduling an appointment, signing up to volunteer, or making a donation - you want viewers to do something - this is your call to action. While a website may have several objectives, but there should always be ONE clearly stated and trackable call to action. Here are some ideas for creating a call to action that will generate tangible results.

Thanksgiving is a great time to convey gratitude to your clients, donors, customers and other website viewers. Adding tasteful and appropriate seasonal graphics to your site makes it fresh, unique, and is a great opportunity to run seasonal promotions. Have you ever been enchanted by a Google Doodle or entertained by a site with special holiday graphics? These promos work because they cheer up our work-a-day world and create a memorable, sharable moment between you and your audience.

Thank you so much to everyone who joined me on Friday, November 1st, 2013 (Dia de Los Muertos) for my art show. The event featured my Happy Hallow Dia collection of new cultural relics, "Recuerdo" (13 years in the making!), a community altar to which some guests added photos and the names of their "muertos" (departed friends and relatives), Pan de Muertos (delicious Mexican sugar bread), great music (Lila Downs), fragrant marigolds, soft candles and more. It all took place at Anneville Studio - the studio of my partner San Diego Metalsmith and Jewelry Metals instructor Anne Wolf. Long-lost friends and new visitors enjoyed the Dia show and also got to view Anne's incredible mokume gane custom wedding rings and other works of wearable art. View photos.

As the owner of Pixel Lava Interactive I've helped hundreds of small businesses and nonprofits with websites, graphic design and more. I hope you'll find this blog full of useful information.~ Ame Stanko